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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B21038	The history of His sacred Majesty Charles the II, King of England, Scotland, France & Ireland, defender of the faith &c. begun from the murder of his royall father of happy memory & continued to this present year, 1660 / by a person of quality.	Dauncey, John, fl. 1663.; Davies, James.	1660 (1660)	Wing D292	74,871	224

to Rebellion Who knows not that in our unfortunate jnterregnum the design of our hardharted task-masters was to blind if not put out the Eyes of the three Kingdoms by endeavouring to pilladge those formerly famous Seminaries of Learning and discourage it for the future as if they had been of that judgement that ignorance was the Mother of devotion All which and much more that might justly be vrged on this subject must needs make us acknowledge as it is in the forementioned psalme and that often as it is there to Praise the Lord for his goodnes in restoring him declare the wonders that he hath done for him and the people of these Kingdones I am sure we may justly say If God had not been on our side we had been destroyed but to him for ever be the praise The snare is broken and we are delivered Yet there are a sort of people in the world and too many in this kingdome the more is the pitty God grant there be none in England the Epistle of Saint Jude espetially the 10. 16. describs them that through ignorance misinformation prejudice or advantage are redy to slander the foot-steps of the LORDS anoynted who live in this dark corner of Ireland and are ignorant of the worth of that happines that is in the King to themselves thereby I thought it therefore a necessary duty having this History by me to get it reprinted here for information being as far from endeavouring to gain applause thereby as I am uncapable of attaining it by any thing from my selfe only that I may manifest the goodnes of God which is the duty of every Christian and my loyalty which is the duty of every Subject good Christian though for these twelve years I have been a sufferer for it and informe those that yet know not so much as this manifests To the Lord the only ruler of Princes whose right hand and mighty arm hath done it for ever be the praise Yea let all the People praise thee O Lord for thy goodnes to us in restoring the light of our Eyes the breath of our Nostrills the Kings most excellent Majesty the restoring of whom unto his Throne must needs be acknowledged the hand of God and if enough to convince an Athist may evince to the World the validity of vnited and devout prayers such as are injoyned with good authority by the Church of England and are the very Marrow of the Scriptures and where are not Scripture are vncontroulably agreeing composed by those that lay'd down their lives to maintaine and bequeathed as the best Legacy to their Wives and Children And in a word are those prayers for which our blessed Saviour will not refuse to be an intercessour and which have so miraculously restored the defendor of our Faith to his Throne which noe rational man alive but may well conclude being as I am confident they were put up to the Throne of Grace with pure upright hearts by the dutifull and obedient Sons of the Church And therefore let all but espetially such never forget to return due praise for his mercyes to us and to our King and as it is there directed yeild praise and thanksgiving for our deliverance from those great and apparent dangers where with we were incompassed and to acknowledge it his goodnes that we were not delivered over as a prey unto them beseeching still his goodnes and mercy to us that all the World may know that he is our Saviour and mighty Redeemer And that all those that do confess his holy Name may agree in the truth of his holy word and live in vnity and Godly love that under our Lawfull King and governour we may be Godly and quietly governed And for our most gratious Soveraign also let us pray That he knowing whose Minister he is may aboue all things seeke his honour glory that so we his Subjects duly considering whose authority he hath may honour and humbly obey him according to Gods blessed word and Ordinance And as it is directed by that Divine Orthodox ancient and best lyturgie of the Church of England To keep and strengthen in the true worship of thee in righteousnes and holynes of life thy Servant CHARLES our most gratious KING and Governour That it may please thee O Lord to rule his heart in thy faith feare and love that he may ever more have affiance in thee and ever seek thy honour and glory That he may alway incline to thy will and walk in thy way Endue him plentyously with heavenly gifts grant him in health wealth long to live strengthen him that he may Vanquish and over come all his Enemies and finally after this life he may attain everlasting Ioy and felicity through Iesus Christ our Lord. As for those who so barbarously acted in that horrid crime the Murder of his Sacred Majesty of blessed memory they have had at least some of them the reward of Regicides So let his Enemies perish O Lord and all that rise up against him But on his own head let his Crown flourish Let his dayes be many and prosperous and let all but espetially those that are truly loyal finde the Comfort of it The unexpressable joy of all his Subjects felt and declared at his return requires a Volume and at this place cannot be inform'd it being indeed beyond expression God inclining the hearts of all his people as some times all the Subiects of King David the people of Juda to bring home their King 2. Sam. 19.14 Take one for all a Copie of Verses presented with his own hand at his return to his Government By that most Honorable and Heroick person and renowned Champion of the English interest in Jreland which Maugre all opposition will eternize his fame to all posterity The Lord President of Munster all that know him know his excellency that way it s enough to say they are his and they follow as well worthy to conclude the History of his most excellent Majesty whom God preserue H F Cork 22. No 1660. TO THE KING UPON HIS MAJESTIES Happy Return AS the Great World at first in Cbaos lay Then darknes yeilded to triumphāt day And all that wild and undigested Mass Did into Forme and to perfection pass So in our lesser World Confusions were Many and vast as now our Blessings are Our past and present State fully express All we could bear and all we would possess Wonder not that your forces could not bring You to Your Crowns nor us unto our King Fate made therein this high design appear Your Sword shall rule abroad Your Virtues here The lesser Conquest was to you deny'd That by the greater it might be suppy'd Nor think it strang that som so long have strove With that which they did most admire love Since all against their dissolution pray Although to Heav'n there is no other way Like to Bethesdas Pool our Common-wealth Till it was troubled could not give

known that thousands were forced out of several Countreys to serve against their wills them too put into the brunt of the battle as though destined for the slaughter But for all these numerous forces which encompassed the Royal Army they were chearfull resolved to sell their lives at a noble rate his Majesty by the Example of his undaunted courage principally encourageing them so that many vigorous sallies were made upon their Enemies though their supernumeraries forc't them to a retreat yet was it very seldom and never ignobly But now the fatal day draws nigh a day before so eminently auspitious to Cromwell and as unfortunate to the Scots viz. the third day of September The fight was occasioned thus Cromwell Fleetwood others of the Republick party had after the gaining the pass at Upton endeavoured to make themselves a clear passage to the City that their Army might joyn in the Leagure to which end and purpose they ordered the making of two Bridges the one over the Severn the other over Thame over the last of which passes Lievt General Fleetwood went to attach the West side of the Town which so allarm'd the Royall Army who then lay within their Leagure at St. Jones that to prevent their drawing nigher they salyed out with the greatest part of their Horse and Foot and a stiff encounter there was till over powred by numbers more then by valor which they demonstrated to the utmost of mens strength they were forced to retire again into the Leagure leaving more of their Enemies dead bodies in the field then of their own But whilst the encounter was on the West side of the Town Cromwell having pass't his Army over Severn he march't directly to the Town on that side whereupon his Majesty in person and in the head of the Horse sallied out upon him and that with so much valour and courage that Cromwel's own life-guard and the best of his old Souldiers who were thought almost invincible were forc't to retire 'till seconded by those numerous supplies of fresh Souldiers who served only like the Turkish Asapi to blunt the Royal swords so that their wearied arms no longer able to hold out were forced to retreat and at Length notwithstanding the generous example of his Majesty who performed things worth wonder to a disorderly flight and notwithstanding his Majesties earnest endeavours in which he had his horse twice shot under him to bring them again to a rally yet it proved fruitless for the Cromwellian Army pouring forth their numbers upon them permitted them not so much time but following them close at the heels to the Town towards which they fled entred pelmel with them And now notwithstanding their flight and the danger of their own lives yet had they so much care of their soveraign that the whole cry throughout both Town and Army was nothing else but Save the King Save the King for him they knew it was that the Junctoes army chiefly looked after indeed in great danger he was for notwithstanding the earnest desires of many of his friends particularly Duke Hamilton who pressed him to have a care of his safety reserve his person to a more fortunate day yet his Majesty was hardly induced to quit the field nor would he till he saw all absolutely lost for Cromwell's Army having as I said followed the Royalists into the Town and got possession of one side of it and after by two or three strong assaults upon the fort Royal where the Cheshire men never before found so disloyall to their Prince therefore found now their due who out of three thousand men sacrificed the lives of 1600 to the Ghosts of those new Royallists which were all put to the sword in it it was taken by storm and now when it was almost too late his Sacred Majesty thought it high time to provide for his safety and so with some Nobles and Servants not without a great deal of difficulty for how could it be otherwise where there was such hard search made for him he quit the field and by the most unfrequented roades that they could possibly find out rode to the Farme-house of a noble Gentleman on the borders of Staffordshire where they no sooner arrived but his Majesty disroabed himselfe of his Princely Ornament accoutrements and particularly of a Chain of Gold or spannar-string worth three hundred pounds sterling the Present of a Scottish Lord which he bestow'd upon a Servant of his there present which done for his farther disguise he proceeded to the cutting of his hair and the Cote affording neither shears nor scissars to perform it it was by the Lord Wilmot cut off with a Knife And now every one is commanded to shift for himselfe this poor Prince left alone to the sole protection of the Almighty he choosing none but one friend to accompany him with whom he wandred into a Wood within four miles say some of Wolverhampton where finding a hollow Oak he was now content to make it his Pallas for here he for some daies concealed himselfe his Friend still towards night going out to provide him some refreshmēt dureing this his solitary confinement In the mean time the Lord Wilmot who was commanded with the rest to seeke his fortune was by chance pursued by some Souldiers but meeting with a Country fellow for merly a Souldier in the old King's Army he was by him secured though somwhat strangly for he carries him into a Malt-house belonging to Mrs Jane Lane having no other convenient place to hide him in clapt him under the Kilne though there were then some fire in it the Malt smoaking on the top In the mean time the Souldiers then in pursuit of him entred the house and having made about three quarters of an houres search every where else but not at all suspecting the Kilne where they saw the fire they departed the Lord Wilmot was taken out of the Kilne almost ready to faint with the extreamity of the heat The country fellow having thus secured this Lord acquaints Mrs. Lane with what he had done and she extreamly glad of it gets him to her house where in conference she enquires of the Kings safety The Lord Wilmot gives her the former relation of his miseries and distress which forces tears from the tender hearted Gentlewoman she earnestly entreats him to take some course for the finding out of his Majestie and conducting him to her house she being resolved to venture her life had she ten thousand for the saveing of his Royal Majesties The Lord Wilmot glad of so happy an opportunity to serve his Majesty and so great a ptobability of secureing him the next night finds him out conducts him from the Royal Oak to the House of Mrs. Jane Lane where after a large condoling of his hard fortune consultation was had for a conveniency for his Escape beyond sea at length it was concluded that Bristoll would be the most